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STIRRED UP
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Dictionary entry overview: What does stirred up mean?
• STIRRED UP (adjective)
The adjective STIRRED UP has 1 sense:
1. emotionally aroused
Familiarity information: STIRRED UP used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Emotionally aroused
Synonyms:
aroused; stimulated; stirred; stirred up
Similar:
excited (in an aroused state)
Context examples
But I'd got him stirred up, and he was so interesting that I did not think.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
He reached for it with both hands and stirred up the milky mud at the bottom.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
Did he lie down to sleep, he was stirred up by a sharp stick—so that the audience might get its money's worth.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
He carefully stirred up the embers of his lost love, but they refused to burst into a blaze.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
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